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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
the benefit of the said trustees, and their successors, so as most
effectually to answer the objects and design of this act towards the
advancement and promotion of knowledge and virtue. |
1807.
CHAP. 134. |
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CHAP. CXXXV.
An Act to authorise William Handy and James Riche to sell and dispose
of the Real Estate of Isaac Handy, late of Somerset
County,
deceased. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 472.
A Private Act.
A Supplement, 1808, ch. 118. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
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CHAP. CXXXVI.
A Further Additional Supplement to the act (a), entitled,
An act for
amending, and reducing into System, the Laws and Regulations
concerning Last Wills and Testaments, the duties of
Executors,
Administrators and Guardians, and the Rights of Orphans
and
other Representatives of Deceased Persons.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol.
474.
(a) 1798, ch. 101. See 1802, ch. 101, and the acts there referred
to. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
after the first day of October next the crop growing upon land devised
by any deceased person, and by him or her begun, shall be
deemed and considered as assets in the hands of an executor or administrator,
in the same manner that the crop growing upon land
not devised is. |
Crop growing upon
land devised to
be considered as
assets, &c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any security
of a guardian, appointed
by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, shall conceive
him or herself in danger of suffering from the suretyship, he
may apply to the orphans court by which such guardian was appointed,
and the said court may call on such guardian to give counter
security, and if the said guardian shall not, within a fixed reasonable
time, give such counter security, the said court may revoke
the appointment of such guardian, and appoint a new guardian; and
in case the guardian whose appointment is revoked as aforesaid,
shall refuse or neglect, in a reasonable time after demand, to deliver
over to such new guardian the property of the word, the said
court may compel the same by attachment, and may direct the bond
of such displaced guardian to be put in suit. |
In certain cases
guardian may be
called on to give
counter-security,
&c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for the
several orphans courts in this state to call upon any executor or administrator,
to whom letters testamentary of or administration
have been by them respectively granted, to give new security, to
be approved of by such court, and if such executor or administrator
shall refuse or neglect to give such new security within a fixed
reasonable time, the said court may revoke such letters testamentary
or of administration, and appoint a new administrator or administrators;
and in case such executor or administrator shall refuse
or neglect, in a reasonable time after demand, to deliver over
to such new administrator or administrators the property of the
deceased remaining in his hands unadministered, the said court
may compel the same by attachment, and may direct the administration
bond of such executor or administrator to be put in suit.
By 1817, ch. 178, in all cases where
letters testamentary or of administration
have been or may be revoked, and new letters granted, the court are authorised
to
enforce by attachment, sequestration of property and imprisonment, the
delivery
or payment over of all unadministered assets by the person whose letters
have
been or may be revoked, to the person to whom new letters are granted. |
Court may call on
executor or administrator
to give
new security, &c. |
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